[dirtboy]

Two different things. Both true. Let's not confuse them with each other. They are two different things.

Only one matters. Net income. People had very nice raises, percentage-wise, during the Carter years. But their purchasing power dropped like a rock. Yet you would only look at their raises, using the "logic" you have displayed to this point. It's plain to anyone without an agenda that you're full of it.

[Southack]

"People had very nice raises, percentage-wise, during the Carter years. But their purchasing power dropped like a rock. Yet you would only look at their raises."

What makes you say that? Certainly nothing that I've mentioned so far.

My point was that salary increases are one thing, and that inflation is another. That doesn't mean, as you erroneously extrapolate, that I'm ignoring either.